[ewg] Re: [ofw] SC'09 BOF - Meeting notes

[Eli Cohen]

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:11:21AM +0200, Eli Cohen wrote:

Would like to fix a typo: I meant bellow:
Saying that the patch set did not go through a review process would
**be** inaccurate.

> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 01:38:59AM +0200, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> > 
> > yes, this would be simply not supportable, think about that, you want
> > to hand your customers with a code which didn't pass review nor
> > acceptance by the Linux IB stack maintainers (Roland and Sean), say,
> > next a crash happens at this or that module / line, next, what you
> > except the maintainers to do?
> > 
> Saying that the patch set did not go through a review process would
> not inaccurate.
> Bellow is a brief log of major changes done on the RDMAoE patches for
> your reference. A detailed correspondence can be found at the
> openfabrics general list.
> 
> Rev1 - June 15 2009, first patch set sent for review
> Rev2 - June 25 2009, Sean - move path resolution to a new module
> (rdmaoe_sa)
> Rev3 - July 13 2009, Sean, Roland, share data structs between
> multicast.c and rdmaoe_sa.c, distinguish between rdmaoe and ib calls
> at the cma, increment ABI version
> Rev4 - Aug 5 2009, Woody Sean Or, ports are differentiated by port
> protocol rather than port type, move rdmaoe sa functionality to cma
> Rev5 - Aug 19 2009, Roland, Sean, don't use broadcast MACs to map
> multicast GIDs, MAD service disabled for userspace, add
> rdma_is_transport_supported()
> Annonuce - Sep 17 2009, OFED-RDMAoE branch announce, daily builds
> available
> Rev6 - Nov 16 2009, NIC programming moved from CMA to hw driver so
> verbs consumer can utilize it.
> 
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